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In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive styles and structures and shines a light on a moment of reckoning.
Dec 17, 2021 · Parents need to know that Call Us What We Carry is a collection of poetry by Amanda Gorman, inaugural poet for Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States, and the first National Youth Poet Laureate. It explores the themes of trauma, hope, and healing in the American experience, for the collective as…. There aren't any parent reviews yet.
Dec 3, 2021 · Amid it all, Gorman also completed a timely poetry collection, Call Us What We Carry, coming Dec. 7. In seven sections and through poems that often experiment with form, the book sets out to tell ...
Call Us What We Carry. By Amanda Gorman. “Take tragedy, write a book.”. Amanda Gorman ’s debut collection, Call Us What We Carry, explores more than a century’s worth of epidemics, including the Great Influenza of 1918, AIDS, and the often overlooked effects of climate change and racism as their own species of plagues. At its best ...
Jan 23, 2024 · Amanda Gorman is the youngest presidential inaugural poet in US history. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hill We Climb and Call Us What We Carry, as well as the children’s picture books Change Sings and Something, Someday. Amanda is a committed advocate for the environment, racial equality, and gender justice.
In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive styles and structures and shines a light on a moment of reckoning.
In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive styles and structures and shines a light on a moment of reckoning.
